BRITISH PENETRATION INTO BULGARIAN TERRITORY.
ADVANCE OF TEN MILES NORTH OF LAKE DOIRAN. FIRST BULGARIAN ARMY SURROUNDED BY ITALIANS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, Sept. 26. An official message from Salonika announces that the British entered Bulgarian territory yesterday opposite Kosturino, a frontier town 10 miles north-west of Lake Doiran and seven miles south of Strumnitza, the principal Bulgarian town in the south-west portion of the kingdom. The Servians have completed the capture of Gradsko, on the Vardar River, 50 miles north-east of Monastir, and have reached the outskirts of Ishtip, 20 miles east of the Vardar. Later reports show that the Servians have captured Kuprulu (Veles) on the Vardar, in the rear of the Babuna Pass. The Italians have surrounded the Bulgarian First Army in the neighbourhood of Krushevo, in South-west Servia, 15 miles west of Prilep.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 7
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